Bake Your Own Super Cupcakes!

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By relache


The cupcake is the ultimate Cake-For-One!

A bit of colored frosting and some sprinkles make it fancy
A bit of colored frosting and some sprinkles make it fancy

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Why Cupcakes Are The Best!

Cupcakes are the best because they let you have that moment of cake, but on a personal level. You never feel like you ate too much with a cupcake, but a slice of cake can sometimes be overwhelming or too heavy.

Cupcakes don't care if you're into vanilla, chocolate or any possible combination of the two. Cupcakes are good both ways. If you have to feed a group, cupcakes make everyone feel like they got their fair share. With a cupcake, everyone can have a rose....

Depending on how you decorate them, cupcakes can go from casual to formal, from simple to elaborate, from kids birthday parties to weddings and gala balls.

To start off, I've included a vanilla cupcake, a special dairy-and-egg-free cupcake recipe and one for chocolate frosting. I'll periodically change them so you can share some of my favorites.




An Easy Cupcake Trick - Use A Decorative Tip When Frosting

Lots of little frosting squirts makes a spikey treat!
Lots of little frosting squirts makes a spikey treat!

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Super Vanilla Cupcakes

  • 1 3/4 cups cake flour, not self-rising
  • 1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Start the oven pre-heating, setting it for 325 degrees.

Get your cupcake pans ready by lining them with paper liners.

Set-up your electric mixer with the paddle attachment. Use this to combine the flours, salt, sugar and baking powder, mixing on low speed. Then add the butter a few cubes at a time, and let it mix until the butter is just coated with the flour, then stop the mixer.

In a separate bowl, combine the vanilla extract, milk and eggs, whisking well. Turn mixer back on to medium and slowly pour in the wet ingredients. Use a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl as you pour this part in. Do not overbeat the batter.

Use a small ladle or measuring cup with a spout to fill the cupcake tins. Only fill each cupcake liner two-thirds or your cupcakes will rise to far when they bake and burn onto the pan.

The cupcakes should bake for approx 17-20 minutes. Halfway through baking, rotate the pan in the oven. Test cupcakes to see if they are done by sticking a toothpick down into the center of a few of them. You want to see the toothpick come out "clean" with no batter sticking to it.

This recipes makes about 30 cupcakes.

When the cupcakes are done, tip them out of their tins and let them finish cooling by sitting on a wire rack. DO NOT FROST CUPCAKES UNTIL THEY HAVE COOLED COMPLETELY. Otherwise, the frosting melts and drips right off the cupcake.

Serve cupcakes at room temperature. Store them covered in plastic or sealed in the refrigerator. Eat within three days for best texture and freshness.


Frosting Goes Fancy For Spring


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Dairy and Egg-Free Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 1/2 C. all-purpose flour

3/4 C. sugar

1/4 C. cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

5 T. vegetable oil

1 T. vinegar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/4 C. water

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a one-dozen-cupcake pan with liners.
  • In a large bowl, mix all of the dry ingredients together. Then add the vegetable oil, vanilla and water, mixing until the batter is one even color and has become smooth.
  • Pour or ladle batter evenly into cupcake cups and bake for 20 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
  • As an alternative to frosting, dust the tops of these cupcakes with powdered sugar!


Super-fancy Cupcakes

Catered cupcakes can be fancy enough for weddings.  Shown here, an elaborate floral cupcake tree.
Catered cupcakes can be fancy enough for weddings. Shown here, an elaborate floral cupcake tree.

Save The Cupcake with the Cup-A-Cake!

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A Cute Frog Cupcake

Gumdrops make great frog eyes, and so do candied lime slices and green fruity sours.
Gumdrops make great frog eyes, and so do candied lime slices and green fruity sours.

Luscious Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

  • 1/2 C. butter
  • 2 1/2 C powdered sugar
  • 1/4 C unsweetened Dutch cocoa
  • 1/4 C whipping cream
  • 1 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate (1 square)
  • 1 Tbsp. light corn syrup

In a bowl, combine cocoa, powdered sugar and salt. Melt chocolate in a microwave or using a double boiler and then combine with whipping cream.

In an electric mixer, beat butter on medium speed until creamy. Alternating pour in the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients, adding small amounts of each and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula.

When the wet and dry ingredients have been added, stop the mixer and stir in the corn syrup.

This recipe frosts approximately a dozen cupcakes.

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livelonger profile image

livelonger  says:
17 months ago

Yum! You've got to give some credit to Magnolia Bakery in NYC for repopularizing this treat.

Speaking of NYC and cupcakes, a friend was just there, and she can't eat gluten (she has celiac disease). She found a place that's good for people who love their cupcakes but are either sensitive to gluten or vegans:

http://www.babycakesnyc.com/

also "sugar free" (agave syrup)

relache profile image

relache  says:
17 months ago

What a great comment! I just added some recipes that suit special diets to the cupcake recipe links here. My mom's diabetic so maybe I'll make her some of the pineapple cupcakes.

1kghub profile image

1kghub  says:
14 months ago

Awsome cupcake recipe and I love to bake and these cupcakes sound easy. I had no idea there were so many different kinds. Thank you for sharing your recipe!

Stacie Naczelnik profile image

Stacie Naczelnik  says:
11 months ago

These look great! You should open your own business. I've seen a cupcake-based business in the Seattle area, is that you? If not...you could add some competition.

relache profile image

relache  says:
11 months ago

I'm not the Seattle cupcake biz, just an appreciative fan!

Marye Audet profile image

Marye Audet  says:
9 months ago

I like the frog one best..these are great!

Passionate Baker  says:
7 months ago

Hi. Am very new around here, and am stumbling around! Love yr posts re cupcakes.

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rogue nestling  says:
4 months ago

Sweet! Some great decorating ideas!

Whitney05 profile image

Whitney05  says:
4 months ago

Wow. Now I really want cupcakes. To me the icing makes the pastry. I will need to try your Luscious Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.

relache profile image

relache  says:
4 months ago

Making cupcakes saves me having to eat an entire cake myself as I can give some away to friends and just keep a few at home.

MarcNorris profile image

MarcNorris  says:
6 weeks ago

I love cupcakes so much. The icing would be the best part. I have been known to eat tubs of icing all by themselves... maybe I have said too much.

Great hub and good ideas. Thanks!

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solarshingles  says:
4 weeks ago

Wow, so very colorful, sweet and delicious! I simply cannot resist...

debby28 profile image

debby28  says:
4 weeks ago

Have to make cupcakes to take to svool think I am going to try one of these ideas.

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